Breast Cancer Trusting God in the “I Don’t Want To’s”
February 20, 2018 Kim Harms

When I discovered a lump in my breast on January 9, 2016 (there are some dates you don’t forget), I opened a new Word document on my computer and started typing. The title of the doc? When You Think You Might Have Cancer. By the time I stopped adding to that document months later, it was 55 typed pages long. Add to that all the journaling I did with my handy ink pen and I have close to 80 pages of my cancer experience on paper. Yowzers. This week will mark the 2nd anniversary of my bilateral mastectomy, and I’ve…

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marriage A Love Poem for My Favorite Guy
February 14, 2018 Kim Harms

So Happy Happy Birthday And Happy Valentine’s too. I am far beyond blessed that I get to do this life with you.

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Breast Cancer Your Hurting Friend Might Need You to Clean Her Toilets But She Probably Won’t Ask
February 6, 2018 Kim Harms 2Comment

I remember the day Carter started kindergarten. The eldest and most timid of my children, I can say with certainty his first day of school would still rank somewhere in the top 5 if he kept a Terrible-Horrible-No Good-Very Bad-Day list. That was a long day followed by a long difficult year of adjustment. But he got through it. I remember the day Owen realized he didn’t have super powers. It was a blow to his self-confidence when his dad broke the news that it was a remote control turning on the ceiling fan; not the super-spin motion created by Owen’s alter…

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Uncategorized How to Encourage Family Members or Friends who have Cancer
January 30, 2018 Kim Harms 4Comment

  I met author Shirley Corder (virtually, not physically) after my Aunt Connie gave me her book Strength Renewed to read during my breast cancer year. A breast cancer survivor, she graciously provided this post insightful post for us today.  *** When I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer with glandular involvement, I found my family members and friends reacted in one of several ways. 1) There were those who rose up and said, “We’re here for you.” This included my family members who lived at home, and I hate to think what my year of cancer treatment would have been like without…

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Breast Cancer 5 Breast Reconstruction Gifts
January 23, 2018 Kim Harms 2Comment

Every woman is different and there are a lot of varieties of reconstruction surgery, but the following are 5 things I greatly appreciated while walking down the road to reconstruction. If you have a friend who’s going through this bizarre and challenging life circumstance, she might appreciate something from this 5 Breast Reconstruction Gifts list. A Sherpa Blanket Sherpa blankets are super-soft, ultra warm blankets that you can just sorta hibernate in. My friend Marti gave me one, and I called it my magic blanket. I slept with it for months. Even when I finally went back to my bed…

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